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Museums: Ethics of exhibition

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David Hurst Thomas explores the controversies over collections of human remains and plundered artefacts.

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  1. David Hurst Thomas is a curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.,

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Thomas, D. Museums: Ethics of exhibition. Nature 531, 302–303 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/531302a

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  1. Pierre-Francois PUECH

    The skeletal remains in museums preserve the past of their nations. Whether Italy with Dante, Vaïmaca Peru to Uruguay, the Bushmen aborigines teeth (-today, the San) to the Kalahari or Lucy for all humans, we need these remains if we do not want to forget our ancestors.https://www.academia.edu/22470068/T...

  2. Pierre-Francois PUECH

    Skeletal remains belong to a country of all pasts. To understand them means to preserve them better.This way of continuance gives the impression of an afterlife that leads man to save the deceased objects from disappearing.
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